Pilot, CEO James Haslam face another lawsuit

4:33 AM,
Jun. 12, 2013

Written by

Walter F. Roche Jr.
| The Tennessean

Another Alabama trucking firm has filed suit in the aftermath of a federal raid on the Knoxville headquarters of the Pilot Flying J truckstop chain.

In a class action suit filed in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala., attorneys for Eagle Motor Freight charged that Pilot and its top executives, including CEO James A. Haslam, engaged in a scheme to "secretly and unlawfully withhold diesel fuel price rebates."

The 36-page complaint, like some dozen others filed in courts in five states including Tennessee, cites a 120-page affidavit filed by an FBI agent to justify the April 15 raid on the ...